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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition – 30 through 21

30. Space Base

Published By: Alderac Entertainment Group
Designer: John D. Clair

Buy Space Base

This is a game that I should have played a long time ago. But it is one that left my collection and then I played it on BGA. Once I played it on BGA, I knew that I needed it back in my collection. Much like other games like Valeria and Mochi Koro this one is about activating spots based off of dice rolls. And then building up those spots so that you can activate more things. Space Base just ramps up in a much better way than those and offers some interesting choices and an interesting moment of when you change from money to points.

29. Symbiose

Published By: Subverti
Designers: Jeremy Partinico and Christelle Partinico

Not Available Yet

Symbiose is one of the new games on the list, in fact, I’m not sure you can get it in the US yet. But this is one I’ll be getting for sure. It’s a simple game where you try and get a two tall by four wide grid full of cards. And those cards are going to score you points based off of the other cards in the grid. But there is a simple twist that makes this work. You score your grid with the central four cards. But the ones to the left and right score your opponents to the left and right. And that is enough to make this a very fun game.

28. XenoShyft: Onslaught

Published By: CMON Limited
Designers: Keren Philosophales and Michael Shinall

Out of Print

I love cooperative and deck building games. XenoShyft does both of those things really as well as you build up your deck to fight off monsters. On the deck building side I like how you always get money to add to your hand. That means that you are always able to buy something which is good and rewarding. The other part is I can just give you a card, you need more troops, I can give you one. It is now part of your deck, and it’s not to the discard, it is straight to your hand. A very tough and rewarding game.

27. One-Hit Heroes

Published By: Wiggles 3D
Designers: AC Atienza and Connor Reid

Buy One-Hit Heroes

This one is a theme that I like a lot with super heroes, but it is doing something different. You are heroes who are glass cannons, kind of. By that I mean if you take a hit you are out, but the game gives you tons of ways to avoid them. So you need to manage your hand and what the enemy is doing. And each enemy is different and each hero is different, so there is a ton of replayability in the box. Plus you level up, so to speak, as you play and get to add in new cards to your deck.

26. Planet Unknown

Published By: Adam’s Apple Games, LLC
Designers: Ryan Lambert and Adam Rehberg

Buy Planet Unknown

Planet Unknown is one of my favorite planet terraforming games. In this one I love how you are covering up the planet and activating locations to move up on tech, and other tracks. The tracks are such a fun part of the game. And as you play the game more you play not with the starting abilities but with special ones. They make you unique, and of course there is the lazy susan. Being able to spin that and then pick where you want to pick from is great. You can set yourself up well, or you can try and mess over your opponents plans or ideally both.

25. Paper Dungeons

Published By: MeepleBR
Designer: Leandro Pires

Out of Stock

I think that this is the highest roll and write game on the list and one of the most complex that I play. Paper Dungeons is a “Dungeon Scrawler”, as they call it, where you level up heroes and explore the dungeon fighting monsters. But there is more than that, you need to manage your heroes health, make adventuring gear and find treasure. Of course, if you make it to the boss monsters that is another way to get even more points, but hopefully not at the expense of too much health.

24. Kingdom Legacy: Feudal Kingdom

Published By: FryxGames
Designer: Jonathan Fryxelius

Buy Kingdom Legacy – note, there might be an additional tariff related shipping charge in the US.

I was not sure about Kingdom Legacy the first time I watched a video on it, but the more I watched the more I liked it. This is a legacy game of managing your deck of cards by destroying cards, leveling up cards, or even adding new cards. And as you go through, you need to decide which cards are best used for upgrading and points and when to use cards for resources to level up others. It’s a nice balance of multiuse cards, and a challenge to optimize your score.

23. Ready Set Bet

Published By: Alderac Entertainment Group
Designer: John D. Clair

Buy Ready Set Bet

I like betting and I like racing when it comes to games. Ready Set Bet somehow combines the two of them into real time fun and stand-up moments. Personally I like both parts of this game betting and being the person calling the race. As you call the race, it’s just to get into it and keep the race moving and watch everyone else stand-up. As a better it’s all about trying to make the right bets the fastest. If you wait too long the best spots are gone, and if you bet too quickly you’re more apt to make bad bets. It sounds chaotic, which it is, but it’s also so much fun.

22. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

Published By: Stronghold Games
Designers: Sydney Engelstein, Jacob Fryxelius, and Nick Little

Buy Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

Another game about terraforming a planet, Ares Expedition is a big engine building game of, well, doing a better job terraforming Mars. In this game it’s all about the action selection and how that works. I pick an action, everyone gets to do it, but I get a bonus for it. It might be a bonus of drawing more cards or a discount on building something. But then again, if my opponent(s) pick the same action, we all only do that action, and the other possible actions are skipped. So it’s always trying to guess what your opponent(s) will do to optimize your actions.

21. Hanamikoji

Published By: EmperorS4
Designer: Kota Nakayama

Buy Hanamikji

Finally is one of my favorite two player games. Hanamikoji is a game of trying to win the favor of Geisha by giving them gifts. Each one wants a certain gift and there is a limited number of them. You want to win the favor of four or eleven points worth.

But the biggest draw of this two player game is the action system. You only have four actions and you do one per turn and only once per round. They are simple actions like discarding two cards that won’t be used facedown, or putting one facedown that you’ll score. The other two offer a bit more with the “I Split, You Choose” mechanism in play, and makes you think about what cards you show your opponent for that.

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My Tableau Building Games

As normal, we split it into games that I’ve played first and then games that I haven’t played yet in my collection.

Tableau Building Games I’ve Played

• 7 Wonders Duel
• Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle Earth
• 7 Wonders
• Splendor: Pokemon
• The Castles of Burgundy
• Arkham Horror The Card Game
• Marvel Champions
• Dwellings of Eldervale
• Forest Shuffle
• Res Arcana
• Meadow
• Space Base
• Faraway
• Castle Combo
• Furnace
• Aquatica
• New Frontiers
• Jump Drive
• Ancient Knowledge
• Starship Captains
• Village Rails
• Call to Adventure: Stormlight Archives
• Cafe Baras
• Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
• Pixies

Tableau Building Games I’ve Yet To Play

• Everdell
• 3 Ring Circus
• Ark Nova
• A Feast for Odin
• Revive
• Beyond the Sun
• Targi
• Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
• Vale of Eternity
• Expeditions
• Fantastic Factories
• The Bloody Inn
• Raising Robots
• The Witcher: Path of Destiny
• Andromeda’s Edge
• Earth

What Stays and What Leaves?

This is a tough list to really do because they are so unique. A lot of the time there is a pretty big difference between a scoring tableau game and an engine building tableau game. So as I’m looking at the list, it’s hard to say that I should keep this one or another one. Plus sometimes they didn’t really do a great job of putting like games on the BGG list. For example, Terraforming Mars, on the list, Ares Expedition, not on the list. New Frontiers is a tableau building game, but Jump Drive wasn’t part of that list. So I hope that I caught everything, but I’m sure some where missed.

What Is And Easy Leave?

So when we look at the list the ones that I have yet to play, those are generally going to stay. That means that we’re looking at what I’ve played for easy games to leave the collection. It’s not an easy list to pick from. I only have one that is an easy leave from the list. And that is I’m going to be getting rid of 7 Wonders Duel. Mainly because I own Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth. Yes, they are different, but I’m most apt to pick the Lord of the Rings themed one to play.

The other one that is going to leave is 7 Wonders. Now that might be surprising, but I bought I copy and I just don’t play it. If I want a big group drafting game, I go with Sushi Go Party! For that reason while 7 Wonders offers something quite different, it just isn’t going to stick in my collection.

What Is An Easy Stay?

Now for easy stays, I definitely am keeping Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle Earth and then both of the LCG’s on the list from Fantasy Flight Games. I know that I want to keep one of Dwellings of Eldervale and Andromeda’s Edge, but having not played the latter, I don’t know which I want to keep. I’ve heard the latter is the better game, but I like the theme for the former more so.

Space Base, Forest Shuffle, Castle Combo, Castles of Burgundy and Ancient Knowledge easily make the list as well. As does Call to Adventure: Stormlight Archives.

Everything Else

Now let’s touch on everything else and this is where I need to find a few to cut. Do I need Jump Drive in my collection if I play it on BGA so much? I had actually put it in the too sell pile but then I brought it back. And I want to keep it and New Frontiers because I really like both of them. So they stay, though with Jump Drive, it’s tempting because of BGA.

One that it tough for me is Meadow. I like Meadow a lot, but it’s also one that I play less often. I think that this means I just need to play it more to keep it in the collection. The same can be said for Res Arcana. I need to play it more because I really do love that game.

Furnace is going to leave the collection, I’ve decided. Mainly because it’s okay at two players. And I think that I am most apt to play it at two players. Because of that it should leave the collection I think. Another one that I love the theme of but thought the game play was okay so it’s going to leave is Cafe Baras. Mainly it’s super cute, but a bit too simple for my tastes. Even as a game to play with my kid, it’s not quite interesting enough.

So The Tableau Games That Are Leaving

Just to recap we have Furnace, which I really enjoy but less so at two. Cafe Baras is a bit too simple and 7 Wonders Duel is a game that has been replaced by Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth. And 7 Wonders is getting kicked out because it’s the secondary drafting game for big groups for me.

I think that there will be others to leave once I play more. But it’s tricky getting all the tableau building games to the table. Some I maybe shouldn’t keep, like Res Arcana just because when will I play it again.

What is your favorite tableau building game?

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Top 100 Games (of all time) 100 through 91

100. Ecosystem

Published By: Genius Games
Designer: Matt Simpson

Buy Ecosystem here.

I like drafting games a lot and I think that is what keeps Ecosystem on the list. It is a good drafting game with then a good puzzle as you create your tableau of cards in front of you. There are three version of Ecosystem all of which are great though I’m only going to be keeping the one that I show in the picture. That is because that one is easier to teach and learn and play. But any of the versions are pretty easy to learn and all offer their own drafting and tableau building puzzle.

99. Aquatica

Published By: Arcane Wonders
Designer: Ivan Tuzovsky

Buy Aquatica here.

Can you develop the best underwater kingdom is the theme of Aquatica. But the game is really about one central mechanism for me and that is enough to get it onto the list. I wish that the characters were more fun and diverse, but I love the card sliding. When you slide a card up to gain more resources and combo it into a big turn, it just feels good. And the puzzle of optimizing that on each turn is amazing.

It’s worth nothing that I love the puzzle in person but I find it not that great on BGA (Board Game Arena). Mainly, I think on BGA you lose that tactile nature of sliding up cards and seeing how you can work everything together. It makes a tactile thing seem a lot more mechanical on BGA and more interesting when it is in person.

98. Perolga

Published By: Rebel Studio
Designers: Michal Golab Golebiowski and Przemek Woljtkowiak

Buy Pergola Here.

Do you want to make a pretty garden? Perogla is game off set collection and creating a beautiful garden to play in. I like the action or item selection process for the game. The trowels are a fun way to do it, but also the changing extra bonus, depending on where you pick from, really adds to the game as well. Because of that, I think the game offers a bunch of different ways to score points and feels different when I play it

97. Crokinole

There is no designer or publisher on Board Game Geek to post because this game is from 1876 or around then.

Pledge for Crokinole Board Here.

I love Crokinole as a flicking game where I can build up skill. There are other higher flicking and dexterity games on the list, but Crokinole has some things I love about it. In particular that skill level that you are more apt to develop. But it is also a great game for a whole evening, you just sit around, flick discs, have a drink and chat to create a fun activity and casual time. The game is all about scoring points by getting into that center hole, but then strategy as you try and knock your opponents discs off the board.

96. Fleet: The Dice Game

Published By: Eagle-Gryphon Games
Designers: Ben Pinchback and Matt Riddle

Buy Fleet: The Dice Game Here.

Do you want a big roll and write game with two sheets? Then Fleet: The Dice Game might be the roll and write game for you. I like this one because it offers a lot of combos and a lot of paths to scoring points and possible victory. You want to get fish because that is going to give you points, but you also want to get licenses that are going to give you powers. Or maybe you are all in on the market or all in on building the different shops at the wharf. Whatever it is, there is a path for you to try and combo in the game.

95. The Castles of Burgundy

Published By: alea and Awaken Realms
Designer: Stefan Feld

Buy The Castles of Burgundy Special Edition on Miniature Market.

Can you build up the best area of Burgundy to get the most points? That’s what this game is about, getting points in any and every way that you can. Whether it is by adding to flocks or filling an area or delivering goods, you are going to get points. And the dice management in the game is what really makes it work for me. I like figuring out how I can optimize my two dice for a great turn. Or maybe I can’t do that, and now I need to figure out how to pivot to something new.

94. Comic Hunters

Published By: Arcane Wonders
Designer: Diego Sa

Buy Comic Hunters from Amazon here.

Do you like comic books and do you want to have a massive comic collection? That is Comic Hunters in a nutshell as you draft comics to add to your collection. Then you need to determine which ones get added and which ones you spend from your hand putting back into the pool. Plus this game offers multiple different drafts. That sounds like a lot to teach and learn, but it isn’t bad because it’s possible to teach just one draft at a time. And the final bonus is great Marvel comic covers in this game.

93. Dungeon Kart

Published By: Brotherwise Games
Designer: Michael Xuereb

Buy Dungeon Kart here.

Do you want to play Mario Kart but you also want to play a board game? Dungeon Kart is going to let you do both of those things with Boss Monster characters, special powers and spells. This is not my favorite racing game, but it is one that gives me that Mario Kart feel. And the game itself is not too slow in how it plays which I really like.

92. Ace of Spaces

Published By: Devir Games
Designer: Benjamin Amorin

Note: This game is getting an art update after less than welcoming art was included in the game. A new version to buy will be coming.

This is Balatro the board game. Now that isn’t 100% right, but there is similarities between the two. In that you want to beat a boss in this game and you do that with poker hands. In fact you do that several times. And the different bosses you defeat will give you one off or permanent bonuses. There is a bunch of luck in the game, but it’s fast to play, fast to learn, and just a good time for a solo or two player game, in particular solo.

91. Railroad Ink Challenge

Published By: Horrible Guild
Designers: Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva

Buy Railroad Ink Challenge here.

This is a great roll and write game where you are creating rail and road routes. As you create the routes the more exit points you connect, the more points you get. And longest road and rail routes are going to give you points as well. I like both the Challenge and non-challenge version of the game. But the Challenge version gives you some challenges to go for as well which just adds in a little that I really love for the game.

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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 30 through 21

30 – Hanamikoji

• Published by EmperorS4 in 2013
• Give gifts to win the favor of Geisha through tricky card play

This is one of my favorite if not my favorite two player only game. There are others on the list that I like at two a lot, but this probably my favorite pure two player game. In this one you want to win the favor of Geisha and you do that by giving them gifts. But it’s how you give them gifts that is so much fun. The four actions you take per round, and each them offers a good decision. Mainly because you don’t know what your opponent has, you don’t know what’s yet to be drawn, and of course you sometimes have to give the ultimate decision to your opponent.

Buy Hanamikoji

29 – For Northwood!

• Published by Side Room Games in 2021
• Try and win the favor of the woodlands rulers by taking the exact right number of tricks

This is a weird game. For Northwood! is a solo trick taking game. And that sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it really does. Mainly because of the powers and abilities and how all of those work. You play out eight hands and you need to win 0 to 7 tricks each time. But you need to decide how many tricks you’ll win before hand. So it’s using your powers and abilities to mitigate or push for winning those tricks and not getting too high or too low. If you can pull off all eight, that is going to be perfect win.

Currently Not Available But Could be through Gigamic.

28 – Arkham Horror: The Card Game

• Published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2016
• Investigate, fight, and solve the mysteries around Arkham in a Lovecraftian story

This is a fun game in Fantasy Flight Games Arkham Files line, in fact it’s my favorite of them. I really like how they use deck building and just cads to create an immersive narrative and experience for a game. It’s fun to play through the story, use your deck, and try the best you can to not fail the checks that you’re given. And it’s also nice because it is a campaign, you play through multiple scenarios, but it’s not a long campaign, so you can pick and choose which short campaigns that they’ve put out for the game that you want to play through.

Buy Arkham Horror: The Card Game

27 – Star Wars: Unlimited

• Published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2024
• Battle to beat your enemy by destroying their base with your dominance in space and on the ground

This is the only Trading Card Game to make the list. And you know I have some beef with Fantasy Flight and Asmodee around how they are handling sending out destroyed cards and basically saying it’s not their fault. But this isn’t for that.

Because, I love the game. The game is a ton of fun to play and I like the deck building for it too. It’s fun to always have a “commander” basically that helps determine what colors you should build it. And I like how the game play is simpler than that of Magic the Gathering. You never worry about running out of lands because your ability to play cards is just cards. Of course, it gives you a great decision as to which cards you put into play as resources or keep in your hand to play.

Buy Star Wars Unlimited

26 – PitchCar

• Published by Ferti in 1995
• Race around the track and be the first to cross the finish line in this flicking dexterity game

PitchCar is just a fun game. I love how simple it is to teach and play and of course how fun it is to set-up a track and build something crazy, if you want. You want a loop, you can build that. You can add in a jump or you can go up a level and have more track go beneath. Of course you need a buy a bunch of it to do that, but it’s worth it to build more and crazier tracks. At the same time, it’s also fun just to have the basic track as well to play with. And it is a good game for all ages.

Currently Not Available

25 – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

• Published by Stronghold Games in 2021
• Build up your card engine to be the most influential corporation in the terraforming of mars

This is fun card engine building game. You build out a tableau of cards that provide you resources, take actions, help you terraform. But there is more to the game than that. You need to pick what action you want to do, as do your opponents. You may pick the same one but whatever action you pick, you get a bonus doing that. But it isn’t just your action you take, you take your opponents action as well. So I love the strategy in what action do I take based off of what action I think my opponents will take. I might not get a discount or a bonus for doing it, but I do for the one I pick.

Buy Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

24 – Forest Shuffle

• Published by Lookout Games in 2023
• Build up your forest and surround them with the nature that gives you the most points

This is such a pretty game. That is not the spot you’d thought I’d start most likely, but it is. And I like the game a lot for that, but also because it’s a really fun game. In Forest Shuffle you place out trees and then surround those trees with creatures and other plants to build out your forest. Each tree only is able to support a card per side, with a few exceptions. Every card you play is going to give you points in some way. I love it when a game is able to let you score points while still keeping the game simple, which Forest Shuffle does amazingly well.

Buy Forest Shuffle

23 – First Rat

• Published by Pegasus Spiele in 2022
• The moon is made of cheese, so as rats you want to collect items, build space ships, and get to space

The game has a great theme, let’s start there. I enjoy the theme of First Rat and I’m sure that it does help push it higher. But I also like the diversity in what you can do in the game. You might rush to get pieces and shoot one of your rats way up the board. Or you may collect points in other ways, unlock more rats and get them onto the board or push the lights further so when you start to collect resources you get more. And each way is going to give you a good way to win the game. So fun theme, not too complex, but lots of good decisions.

Buy First Rat

22 – Ready Set Bet

• Published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) in 2022
• Bid on a horse race in real time, can you make the right calls and win all the money?

This is a party game, kind of. I say kind of because it isn’t a party game in the traditional sense. Or what you think of a party game when you think of the mass market ones you find at Target or Wal-Mart. But Ready Set Bet is a fun, light betting game that is done in real time. I love this game for it’s stand-up moments. All the bets are down and all of a sudden the #2/3 horse is coming out of nowhere because you rolled it’s number twice and the race changes.

Buy Ready Set Bet

21 – Paper Dungeons

• Published by Alley Cat Games in 2020
• Roll the dice, level up your heroes, and explore the dungeon in this roll and write game

I suspect that this is my highest rated roll and write game on the list. I don’t know of one that I’d have put higher. But I like this one because it gives you a lot to do but not too much. You need to balance leveling up characters, getting health potions, moving around the dungeon, crafting items, and being able to fight the various bosses to score points. That is a lot, but it really comes down to rolling some dice and deciding how to use two of the dice rolled. And then, if you figure out what to do well you combo into a whole lot more.

Buy Paper Dungeons

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Before I do, the majority of my plays have been on Board Game Arena. That helps with some elements of the games scoring, but also is less easy to maybe pick-up some other elements. So your milage is going to vary because you aren’t me, but might vary more because I have played Castle Combo more on Board Game Arena.

How To Play Castle Combo

In Castle Combo you are making the best three by three grid that you can. When you play out the first card it’s “in the middle” but you can build out the rest of your grid around it however you like so that you end up with a three by three grid. At the end of the game you will tally up your points and see who has the best grid.

Your Turn

So on a turn what do you do? Your turn consists of two parts. The first part is optional and the second part you must do.

The optional thing is that you can move the messenger pawn between the two rows. The two rows are mainly the same, as they are cards that you can buy. Or you can use the messenger to wipe the cards out of the row the messenger is on and refill it.

Bonus and Placing

Then you purchase a card from the row you are in. You might have a discount, or you might not be able to afford it, or it might be what you can pay. If you can buy a card face up, you spend coins for it. If you can’t afford a card, you buy it face down. It won’t be scoring with what the card says on front.

Then you figure out what bonus you get for playing the card. It might be coins which will help you purchase more cards. It might be a discount that will make future cards cheaper of a certain type. Or it might be keys which are the resource that you use to move the messenger.

The game continues until everyone has filled their three by three grid, which will happen at the same round. And then you tally up the scoring that you get from each card in the grid.

What Doesn’t Work?

I think one common challenge, at least early in playing the game, is going to be understanding the symbology. It’s not complex, but there is a fair amount. How is something going to score exactly? Well you need to look some symbols. What do you get, you need to look at symbols. And there is a good amount of variety. The basics of scoring generally are score X points for Y symbol or thing. But that is variable in what that thing might be. So I think for some people it’s going to feel too complex at the start.

There is also some luck involved. Now you can mitigate some of that. The messenger is your friend. But you need to balance spending keys, getting keys, and spending money. So it is tight that way, and sometimes you might find that you just aren’t able to get keys. So now you must buy what is in that row and what is in that row might not be good for you. Or you might have all the keys, but you can only spend one per turn, and you might be short on money. But you put yourself in those situations.

What Works?

So to talk about that last negative, while there is luck, I love the control you get. You decide what you get both for scoring and the bonus. The bonus might be great, but scoring is bad. But I need the bonus because otherwise I won’t be able to buy a card that I hope is going to be there for me next time. I love that back and forth of that in the game. And I think that it works really well and is fun that way.

I also like how fast the game and turns go. Even on Board Game Arena where I generally play asynchronously a game can cruise sometimes. Especially in a two player game, if you both get on at the same time, it is a fast and snappy back and forth with turns. And in person, the choices are not that extreme. You get two choices, activate the messenger and then decide which card to buy. There is one scenario where you gain a third, but it’s very minor and generally very simple.

And I like the complexity level of the scoring. I say that the symbols can be a bit. I think that is very true. But scoring is a great puzzle in this game. You need to think a lot about where you place everything and how they will interact. There are some cards that give you points if you don’t have a color banner. So that is a tricky thing, but it’s good points. Do you get that early and try and avoid, but everything you do shapes you scoring strategy.

Who is Castle Combo For?

I think that a lot of people are going to enjoy this game. It’s a great game for casual gamers because you can play it multiple times. I plan on playing it at my next game night, assuming a good player count, and it is one that I can see playing twice. Once as people turn and the next time as people will want to play it again.

For more seasoned gamers this is the warm-up or wind down type of game. It’s that great game for when you want to play something more or are waiting for the last person to show up for a bigger game. It is going to engage you in what is happening. But it’s also not going to take too long or require a lot of setup so it’s a great filler option.

Final Thoughts on Castle Combo

I really love Castle Combo. The game is a ton of fun and really offers some good choices. Plus, it’s fast, and it’s easy setup and get to the table. It’s what I look for a lot in games. I want to play all the big games, but sometimes you just need a smaller game. And I also want to plan out everything in this game and keep on finding myself running short in what I want to do. And I can play it a lot on Board Game Arena as well.

For me the negatives aren’t that bad. And I think in person is going to help make some of the symbols clearer. Online it’s not that bad, but it’s also just a bit more of a pain than to look up some of the symbols. In the box, you just pass around the one cheat sheet, could it be better if there were more, sure, but it’s a minor thing. And that is going to make that initial learning curve a bit easier for players as they can read that on their turn to help make their decisions.

My Grade: A
Gamer Grade: B+
Casual Grade: B+

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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 80 through 71

80. Flamecraft

• Published by Cardboard Alchemy in 2022
• Deliver on the most goals and score points as you play out adorable little dragons who help around the town

This game immediately grabs you with the artwork. The dragons are amazing, and Sandara Tang gives each of them such great personality. Beyond that the game is simple but fun, you go to a location and are either activating the cards and dragons there, or adding some, or spending resources to complete goals. As the locations get more and more dragons the more powerful they become. It’s a great ramping mechanism for a simple game. Though the game is not fast one, which might be my only knock on it.

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79. Just One

• Published by Repos Productions in 2018
• Work together to get the guesser to the right answer with just one word

A party game on this section. I’m not sure, I expect that there are two more party games on the list, but we’ll see. I honestly have forgotten. But Just One is a great cooperative party game. One person is the guesser and everyone else needs to write down a one word clue to get the guesser to guess their one word. Sounds simple, right, but if you double up with anyone, now both those words are gone. That means that an easy clue can become very hard very fast. So you want to be obscure with your clue, but not so obscure that it won’t lead the person to the right answer.

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78. On Tour

• Published by BoardGameTables.com (AllPlay) in 2019
• Create the best route for your band to tour the map going from low to high numbers

This one is a fun roll and write. While I love a ton of roll and write games where they have a lot of combos, this one is a different type of puzzle. In On Tour two dice are rolled and players each place the numerical combinations on two spots on their board. But there are rules as to where they can go. And you may want to watch the city to gain bonus points, but if it won’t connect well to your route, is it worth it to push your luck?

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77. Mythwind

• Published by Open Owl Studios in 2023
• Build up your settlement and play your mini game in this cozy gaming experience

Open Owl Studios went into making Mythwind with the plan of making a cozy game. So something that works well like a Stardew Valley or an Animal Crossing. They do that by creating a peaceful story world to play in, there are interesting elements to it though. And then each person plays their own little minigame. I demonstrate what the minigame for the farmer looks like. And One Stop Co-op Shop and Meet Me At The Table play some of the other ones. It’s just a unique feeling game that is fun, and relaxing to play.

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76. Betrayal at House on the Hill

• Published by Avalon Hill in 2004
• Explore a haunted house but beware, someone is going to be come the traitor

This is a game that I still love though I haven’t played it in a few years. I fully recognize that the game has issues. When you sit down to play you know that the haunt may not work as planned because either the traitor is going to be overpowered or the other survivors will be. And the haunts themselves have janky rules. But I still love the game anyways because it’s thematic, silly, and just a fun time.

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75. Clever 4Ever

• Published by Schmidt Spiele in 2022
• Another combotastic game in the Clever line of roll and writes

I don’t know what else to say about this one. Clever 4Ever offers a ton of fun combos and a few different feeling sections of your sheet. How Wolfgang Warsch keeps on coming up with different and interesting ways to handle rolling five dice, using one, getting rid of lower ones and then rolling them again, I don’t know. But he does and this one is great, I especially like the sections where you can fill in different shapes depending on the number rolled. That element really feels different.

Clever 4Ever is either new to my Top 100 Games (of all time) this year or it just made the cut last year. I know I hadn’t had the game for long.

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74. SpellBook

• Published by Space Cowboys in 2023
• Learn spells and feed your familiar to get the most points

This is a really simple game. All it is when you boil it down is set collection. You collect materia, you get enough of a color, you learn that spell. Then you use that spell you learned to collect more materia or learn new spells easier. Each spell you learn gives you points, or you can just feed the materia to your familiar for more points as well. The is fast, and there is a fun puzzle as to how you can optimize your spell usage as you get into the game.

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73. Century: Golem Edition

• Published by Plan B Games in 2017
• Get crystals, upgrade crystals and get golems to give you points

Another engine building game. Century: Golem Edition again, like SpellBook, has quick snappy turns. In this game it’s all about hand management and using those cards in hand to get more and upgrade crystals. Then you use those crystals to grab Golems that are going to score you points. But you literally just play a card, trade crystals for a golem, pick-up all your cards, or buy a new card. One of those things on a turn and the game just flies.

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72. New Frontiers

• Published by Rio Grande Games in 2018
• Build out the grandest space empire by doing the best action for you

New Frontiers is another engine building game. In New Frontiers you are doing it at a space level though, colonizing new planets, getting new technologies, fighting and conquering planets. All of that done through action selection where what action you pick gives you a bonus. But, everyone else is going to follow along with that action as well. So what is the best action for you and maybe not a great one for other players? I believe that New Frontiers is new to my Top 100 Games (of all time) as well though it isn’t a new game.

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71. Meadow

• Published by Rebel Studio in 2021
• Create a beautiful tableau of nature through tricky card drafting

Meadow is another gorgeous game. I start out and end this section with beautiful games. In Meadow you want to score points by playing out creatures, taking pictures, and gaining trinkets. But to do that you need to build up your meadow from the land type up through bugs and maybe eventually all the way into deer, foxes, or other creatures. How you pick the cards you get is great. You use a fence post that tells you how far into a row or column you are picking. So you need to determine the best spots to play to get all the cards that you want and hope no one blocks you.

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Final Thoughts

Firstly, let me know what your favorite of these games are. I obviously enjoy all of the tones in my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition, so Meadow needs to be my favorite. But in terms of easily getting it to the table, I’m kind of feeling a big old stream and playthrough of all the clever games on Malts and Meeples. And let me know if there is one that you would want to get played as well that you haven’t tried in my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition.

Join me next week for the next batch of games in my Top 100 Games. It’ll be starting around 9 PM Central on Wednesday if everything goes as planned. You can subscribe and click the notification bell to get notified when the video goes live. Thanks so much for watching.

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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 90 through 81

90. Project: ELITE

• Published by CMON in 2020
• Real Time Scenario Based Tower Defense

Normally this wouldn’t be my type of game. I love parts of it, like chucking dice, scenario driven play, and cooperative game play. But I don’t like real time. This balances that out by giving you real time in bursts and then a moment to strategize before the next wave of enemies comes out. That is real time game play that works for me.

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89. Lands of Galzyr

• Published by Snowdale Design in 2022
• Relaxing story driven cooperative or competitive game

Lands of Galzyr is a game that feels like that kind of random D&D session. You stumble across missions but each mission is it’s own thing. And the whole thing is done in a package that puts story first and keeps the game play simple. And it’s a relaxing game to play. Not that some stories aren’t exciting or risky, but it never truly feels high stakes.

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88. Kohaku

• Published by 25th Century Games in 2020
• Build the best and highest scoring Koi pond

I really enjoy Kohaku for the simplicity and thoughtfulness of the game play. It’s a game where you need to plan out where you place tiles to optimize your scoring. But it’s not overwhelming. And the elements like drafting both a koi and a scoring tile each turn and how that works is really enjoyable.

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87. My City

• Published by Kosmos in 2020
• A fast, ever building legacy game

My City is one of those legacy games that is just simple and fun to play. Sometimes they get bogged down in trying to be too big, but not My City. The game is focused on adding a little bit each time and giving you a fun fast session as everyone builds out their city in hopes that it’s the best one at the end of each scenario.

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86. The Isofarian Guard

• Published by Skykingdom Games in 2023
• A massive solo and two player story driven adventure

This is one that you can checkout a game play of on Malts and Meeples. I really enjoy this game, though it is a massive table hog. The game is an interesting story telling game that has some tropes, but quickly branches off into magic powers and interesting story. It’s one that I think works well solo but I’d prefer to play two player to keep the combat simpler and share that great story experience.

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85. Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade

• Published by WizKids in 2020
• It’s Roll and Write Pinball, can you get the new high score?

Super-Skill Pinball is truly a pinball roll and write game. I love how it simulates the game with the ball movement and how it launches up, can ping around in the bumpers or drop back down. It’s a great game for solo play and it’s fun with others, though it’s possible that one player will finish before the others. That’s the only downside to the game, but with all of the tables i never feel like I’m lacking in something to keep it being played solo.

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84. Crokinole

• Created in 1876
• A competitive flicking classic

There’s no publisher for Crokinole, the game is public domain, but there are a lot of great spots to get boards and get spendy or fancy boards. I really like the simplicity of the flicking game. It works really well and smoothly and it’s one that you can definitely get really good at. I wish I had more time to get this one to the table, though, I could say that about all of them.

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83. Clever Cubed

• Published by Schmidt Spiele in 2020
• Another combotastic roll and write game from the Clever line

I really enjoy Clever Cubed because while some of the others have combos, Clever Cubed is the one that has even more combos. And while sometimes I really like a good straightforward roll and write game, I also love the ones that give me a ton of combos. No doubt that this the latter, and the core game loop of how you pick and eliminate dice on your turn is always good.

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82. Furnace

• Published by Hobby World in 2020
• Bid on cards and build up the best industrial engine you can

This is a great and simple engine building game. Everything works smoothly with gathering resources and turning them into points. But there is also a really fun auction as well. I love how it’s a single bid per person per card but if you lose the big, you get a benefit for bidding there. And how the benefits scale based off of the number you bid with is amazing.

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81. Yggdrasil Chronicles

• Published by Ludonaute in 2019
• Defend the world tree from all the threats that abound

This is a really tough cooperative game and one that I really enjoy. I think it’s a fun push your luck as you try to power up while hoping that you can keep the enemies in check. Of course, there are so many enemies and they ramp quickly that it can be very challenging. Plus how the enemies activate or how it’s determined which ones do is really clever and fun.

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Final Thoughts on Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition 90 through 81

What do you think of the list, is there a game that you want to try or that you love on it? I feel like I got a really big variety on the list this time. There are some lighter games, but then you have a game with a ton of minis like Project: ELITE and a big campaign game in The Isofarian Guard. The only thing I think is missing is a true party game from this section.

Just a reminder, join me next week on Malts and Meeples for the next 10 on the list. The plan is to go live around 9 PM Central time and it’ll be 80 through 71. The best way to know when I go live is subscribe and click that notification bell. That’ll let you know for sure when it’ll be happening.

What is your favorite game from the list and what is one that you want to try?

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How to Play Cafe Baras

This game is quite simple in that you are trying to score the most points for the best coffee shop. You gain points for money that you have, but more for scoring on the menu items, returning customers, and special customers you get. Let’s talk about how all of them work in Cafe Baras.

Cafe Baras is a simple game in that you do one of two actions during the game. You either play out a card to add it to your menu. Or you play out a card as a customer’s order. If you play out a card to add it to your menu you pay the cost for the card and you add it to your menu display. This will add coffee, tea, snacks, food, aesthetic, or a few other things to your menu and cafe.

The other thing you can do with a card is use the bottom half as a customer order. You gain on point for symbol that you watch. So if they want a coffee, a snack, and a tea and you have at least one of each symbol you get three coins. If they love something, let’s say coffee, you get a coin per coffee symbol that you have.

That’s the main part of the game. You play a card and then you take a card. That loop continues until someone has three returning customers. Normally if a customer only likes some of what you have, you just get money. But if you match all three symbols and the aesthetic desires, you get to put them as a returning customer. After every other player has a turn, the game ends.

What I Like

This game is simple and I really appreciate that. I don’t need to spend a ton of time explaining how it works because it is easy to teach. The fact that you either play down a card for the menu or for an order and that’s it demonstrates the simplicity.

I also appreciate the special customers in the game. I didn’t talk about them in game play other than that they provide end of game scoring. Each special customer can be scored by the players if they meet the requirements. For example, the Abuela wants Yerba Mate and an Empanada on the menu. You get that, you get six points. Or if you get eight money, you get six points. And there are more than you play with in a game, so there is variety to that scoring.

The scoring is also fun in the game for the cards that you have. Some of the cards you play out give you end game scoring, all of them have points on the cards, or almost all of them do. But some of the cards will score better depending on certain other things. For example, you get one point per different tea that you play. If you play three different teas, each of them score you three points. But no card scoring feels better than the others, really. The game is very well balanced.

What I Want To See More Of

With the simplicity of the game and limited actions, I think the game is not going to always feel that massively different. So if you play it a lot quickly, the game is going to feel like you’ve played it a lot quickly. It won’t offer a consistently or massively different challenge. It reminds me of Diced Veggies in that way. But there is an element of that which is intentional. It makes the game easier to sit down and teach. So it’s not a major negative, just something to be aware of.

Who is Cafe Baras for?

This I think works in two different situations. Firstly, it’s a good game for people who enjoy lighter games or want to introduce people to games. Cafe Baras is a very welcoming experience and a very cute theme. Most people like something from a cafe. And Capaybaras are adorable. So that combination is going to be fun for a lot of people.

But for more serious gamers, I think this a fun filler. I can see it being a good game when you wait for another group to finish up a game. The game play is fast and it says 30 minutes, but I think it could go even faster if people know the game.

Final Thoughts on Cafe Baras

I like this game as a fun filler game. For me, this is a great game to kickoff or wrap-up a board game night. People are either still showing up or some people have left but we want to play a game still. The time frame is fast, the teach is fast, and it’s easy for someone to sit down and chat while it is being played. That’s the niche of Cafe Baras for me and that’s something I won’t say no to in my game collection because it means that it gets played.

Is it going to be one that I pull out when I want to play a heavier and thinkier game, no. But not all games need to be that. In fact, I find in my collection that I need more games that aren’t that because the heavier games get played once in an evening. And then next game night, another heavier game gets played. But Cafe Baras could get played each time.

Is Cafe Baras a game that interests you? Do you like the fun theme on it?

My Grade: B+
Gamer Grade: C
Casual Grade: A

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How to Play Forest Shuffle?

In Forest Shuffle, you try and build the forest that is going to give you the most points. To do this, you need to play out trees and then surround them with animals and other vegetation. Each card has a cost and some benefit to scoring. When all three winter cards are drawn, the game immediately ends. And the player with the most points wins, as I said.

On your turn you either play a card from your hand using other cards from your hand to pay the cost, or you draw two cards. When you play out cards there a few things to note. Firstly, there are three types of cards, left and right divided cards, up and down divided cards, and tree cards. To play the first two, you already need a tree in place. And when you play a tree, it costs one card from the deck of cards. And with a few exceptions you play only a single card above, below, and to the left and right of your tree. You do so that half the card is covered up by the tree.

Dual Purpose (and more) Cards

Cards get used for basically two things, you either play them out to score points in your tableau or you use them pay for other cards. But there is a risk with that. As you pay for cards it goes into a discard row. When that discard row gets to 11 or more cards, it wipes. But until then, those cards are ones that players can pick up with their draw. So you need to pay attention to what other players are doing to try and avoid setting them up.

But it’s also dual purpose in that the non-tree cards are split in two. Either a top and bottom halves or left and right halves. Each half is going to score in a different way. So I pick which side I want to use, and that side is the cost that I need to pay. Some some might be free, but is their scoring as good or is it worth it to pay more? That all depends on the synergies that you have.

Bonus Powers

Let’s do a little aside on the bonus powers you can activate. This is a trickier element of the game, but as you play out cards they might have a color symbol on them that’s kind of an arrow or chevron. If you pay for that card with cards that have that color, you get the bonus. And that bonus is sometimes great. It might be draw more cards, or take a whole next turn. But they make it good and tricky so you can’t just play the card, you need to set your hand up with the right colors to spend.

Luck Level

I think it is important to talk about the luck level in the game as well. I find that it is a nice balance of luck and strategy. Often times the strategy that you pick to start the game, let’s say, I want to get hares, or butterflies, or lots of trees, that is a valid strategy throughout your game. But there is an element of luck and the potential need to pivot.

So you can also just push for what you need. You never can have more than ten cards, but with ten cards there is always something you can play. So you might just find that you draw to get the strategy that you want to work. If you need more hares, you draw two cards blind and hope you get them. Eventually you’ll find what you need.

But there is a level of luck to the game. And at times you might find that you need to pivot. If all I see are people discarding bats, maybe I should start collecting and synergizing around bats. But the further you get into the game, the more focused you are apt to be in what you play.

Is There A Lot To Take In?

That, I think, is both a yes and a no. At the start of the game, there is a lot to take in, especially in your first game. The more games that you play, the less you need to read because you just know a lot of the time. But when you start, you often need to spend some time with your hand trying to figure out what direction it is leaning.

And the more you play the game, the easier it is just to know with a quick glance, nothing is that complex about the game. So as you gain familiarity with all the symbols, which there aren’t that many, the game is a whole lot faster to play. And as you focus your strategy it becomes even faster to look and see what you need, just by the type of animal or symbols an animal or tree gives you.

Who is Forest Shuffle For?

Honestly, I think that this game is going to be for most people. It might be a bit too light for some people, but it’s a good blend of strategy and planning and then making decisions based off of what comes up. And the them is very accessible, building out a forest, that makes sense and doesn’t feel too nerdy, like a fantasy or sci-fi game. And I think even for people who like heavier games, this one isn’t too long, so it’s a good palette cleanser.

Final Thoughts and Grade for Forest Shuffle

I really enjoy this game. I like to play it both in person and on Board Game Arena. It is one that works well to play asynchronously. But in person is always better for a game. But it’s that nice balance of just enough strategy and planning without an overwhelming amount of decisions. And the game is almost always positive in what it does. Don’t get a card you want from a draw, that’s okay, those cards can now be used to pay for stuff. It’s simple, elegant and with a good theme, so a very fun time.

My Grade: A
Gamer Grade: B+
Casual Grade: A

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How to Play Chomp

Chomp is an open drafting, tableau building, feed your dinosaurs game. And that should explain what’s going on, not really. Let’s start out with the goal. In Chomp you are trying to score the most points for having fed dinosaurs and points from goal scoring cards that you draft.

The game has a Point Salad style drafting mechanism. You have an open group of cards. Three of them are on the dinosaurs and the land. The other three are on scoring mechanisms. On your turn you take one of those cards. And the cards need to stay on the side that they are on.

The ones with the dinosaurs you play out into your grid or tableau of dinosaurs. You are trying to place it so that groups of like dinosaurs are together and fed. The carnivores need to be near watering holes where there is meat or herbivores that are the same size or smaller than them. And herbivores need to be near plants. Neither of them want to be near the tarpits, because even if they are fed, if they are adjacent to tarpits, in they go. But if you get a tarpit or something that won’t score for you, you can always layer your next dinosaur card over it in your tableau.

Then scoring cards will give you your own unique end game scoring. So you might get points for the big carnivores or the most dinosaurs at the edge of your tableau. Whatever it is, they add in additional end game scoring bonuses. And most points at the end of the game wins.

Dinosaurs vs Scoring

That, like in Point Salad, is the crux of the game. The difference is that Chomp is a much faster game. It is built to be a filler as you only draft nine total cards. So how many scoring cards do you want to take versus how many dinosaur cards.

The one difference between Chomp and Point Salad is that in Chomp you can still score points from the dinosaurs. It might be that you get most of your points from the dinosaurs if you can set it up so that your herds of dinosaurs are fed. I’ll talk about how that’s interesting soon. So it isn’t as much a cut and dry that you need to push for three to four scoring cards. That is about half your cards. Instead, you might build towards a couple of scoring cards and snag them when they score you good points.

Feeding the Herd

Another element of Chomp that I enjoy is how feeding the herd works. It makes knowing if a dinosaur is fed or not fairly easy. There is a hierarchy where if there is a tarpits, doesn’t matter if they are fed, they are dead. But otherwise if any dinosaur in a group of like dinosaurs is adjacent to the food source, the whole group is.

You might play a group of medium herbivores across five tiles or spaces, but as long as one is adjacent to food and they are all adjacent to each other, that whole group is fed. So it makes for a simple system. At the same time, if a carnivore is adjacent to a herd of herbivores and those are it’s food, it will make that whole herd extinct. So it makes for some good tableau building.

Game Speed

This is an area that I want to say is a bit more of a mixed bag for me. I like how quickly the game plays. When we sat down and learned it, we immediately shuffled up and played again. The game doesn’t take more than 15 minutes as a two player game. Longer with more players, but not long because while each player has options, they are limited and you don’t make decisions that many times.

That said, you also don’t make decisions that many times. Sometimes it is very obvious as to what the decision is that you should make. That isn’t to say that the game doesn’t offer decisions, but because it’s only nine cards and one of them is given to you at the start of the game, it moves quickly. And I like that about the game.

Who Is Chomp For?

Chomp is for people who are looking for a simple but fun filler game. It is fast, the decision making space is pretty light. But there is enough that it won’t be boring for someone who is looking for some decisions. I think it’s a good balancing act for that. And it’s a small box, as I’ve said before, if it’s a small box light, few decisions filler, it can stick around my collection.

Final Thoughts on Chomp

Firstly, I haven’t played it yet at all player counts. I want to play it solo and I want to play it at four. This isn’t a game, though, that I look at it and I think I must play it solo. Instead I look at it is a very fun filler experience which is honestly what I was hoping for from the game. The box is small, I didn’t expect something big and heavy. I expected something fun as I got to play out dinosaurs and have a good time with that.

And for me, the decision making space is just enough to keep the game interesting. You don’t know which scoring objectives are going to come up. But you might try and set-up some scoring objectives for yourself. There are decisions to be made in the game that it’s fun and it’s fast. And I don’t think I’d want much more to think about. I think the combination of the two things, feeding your dinosaurs and scoring cards, is enough to make it a unique puzzle every time.

My Grade: B+
Gamer Grade: C
Casual Grade: A

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